"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

"Music is the best."

"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with tuberculosis."

"Music is the best. I'm going to be a musician. I'm going to be a composer. I'm going to be a genius."